yesterday, i took the wife out to the fall festival...a bunch of craft bullshit (like 9 acres worth), an injun encampment (featuring taiwanese tribal trinkets for sale), a revolutionary war military campsight (complete with fat old rednec...er...redcoats) and...a really big car show.

maybe 10 acres of beautiful automobiles and trucks. and the only reason i am caught dead within a miles of anything labeled "craft".

well, first thing in the morning, a setup crew was trying to get one of those portable construction zone type lights set up...you know, the huge suckers with about 7 big floodlamps on an extendable mast that is connected to a big trailer/base with self-contained generator?

anyway, the setup fools...er...crew fully extended the mast BEFORE erecting it from horizoal to vertical...and promptly tipped that sucker over across the hood and fenders of a custom pickup truck.

the result was not pretty...but, it was costly.

later in the afternoon, some guy decided it was time to leave, hopped into his custom studebaker (with a paint job that probably cost $2000-$3000) and started it up.

next thing you know, he rolled across an open aisle and towards folks setting in lawnchairs behind their custom cars...this was downgrade from where the stude had been parked.

folks screamed and other folks grabbed those folks sitting in their chairs and drug them out of the way of the now accellerating studebaker...lawn chairs and all.

there was hardly a second or two to react!

the stude continued thru an open space in the next row of classic cars with barely a couple inches of clearance on either side! how he managed not to sideswipe those two vehicles i will never know.

still gaining momentum, the studebaker coasted into a second open aisle...well...open except for all the pedestrian spectators forced to run/leap for their lives.

then, the driver of the stude saw her...an old lady in an electric wheelchair! right in front of the next row of classic cars.

he cranked the steering wheel hard right...and slammed nose-to-nose into a cherry 1970 red camaro!

parts leterally flew off both cars as the camaro was driven rearwards a few feet by the impact and weight of the old studebaker.

people were still screaming...but, thankfully no one was hurt.

the brakes had failed on the studebaker and it was going too fast for the driver to jam it into park. you could hear the transmission 'clicking' as the driver tried to force the car into park as it went past us.

dunno if the emergency brake worked or was even tried. this all took place in maybe 3 or 4 seconds.

the stude driver climbed out visibly shaking. the camaro driver, who was not near his car when it got creamed, returned and was also pretty shook up at the damage. the impact speed was probably no more than 20 mph...but, that stude was a tank!

the weird thing was, not 5 seconds before it happened...my wife and i had been in that narrow gap (between the two cars that the stude missed sideswiping), talking to the owner of one of the cars about his engine choice. i'm glad we moved when we did!

OMG!.....

Quoted: when I saw the thread title, I thought you were talking about what happend when you put your s10 in a classic car show...

That would have been unfair, how could the S10 lose?

You should stick to gun shows.  Cars are dangerous.

last year, a guy that i work with, entered his son's dweebo slammed s10 with a 350 v-8 and all the stupid ninja crap on it.

the kid's stoopid toy truck didn't win shit and the son overheated and blew up the motor on the way home from the show...then the tow truck towed the s10 from the rear and the fibreglass flat lid blew off the bed...flipping over the roof and hood...denting both of them.

the dad told the tow truck driver to, "just keep on going.".

the left the bed cover in the ditch.

i would guess this show has 400-500 cars or so entereed in a myriad of catagories for trophies...might have been 100+ vettes in attendance. dunno.


last year, an old lady hit a corvette...panicked...and floored her car as her nose continued to bust up more fibreglass.

as was stated, this show is held at atwood LAKE. i'm still waiting for some greaser to punch his chebbelle into the dammn lake. now...THAT would really make the $5 fee charged to get into fallfest a great deal.

btw, my favorite car this year was a 1959, suicide door caddy eldorado...spectactular!

funniest...a "1931 alfa romeo" that was nothing but a vw bug kit car from the late '70's...

got to see some rare birds and really sano homebuilds, but the scene is still dominated by the same baby boomer greasers, briars and gearheads that i made fun of in the 1960's...somebody please tell these guys that brylcream went out of style over 30 years ago.

nah!

i've been to 2 gunshows that have had nd's.

one was a .22 pen gun (niles) and the other a bolt action sporter (medina).

both rounds went thru the ceiling.

both crowds got real quiet real quickly.

I stop going to the great Trail festival and then this happens, damn!

Now if clean brake fluid was part of the judging, the system would have no moisture and probably not fail...

Area Vette club people are tragic. A few can drive pretty well but the rest..... There was this autocross a few years ago at a Cleve GM plant lot. It included a straight that required 3rd gear in a LT1 6spd Z28 that did 40+ in 1st. Barbara was beating many in her stock VW. When she noted that she was in the front half of the times after the first 2 runs, she found some shoe polish to advertise DIESEL POWER on the back of her car. Bless her.

I stop going to the great Trail festival and then this happens, damn!

dude, that's just around the corner from here!

my luck, the buffalo would stampede. the indians would be restless and the blacksmith would fling a horse shoe at me!

Yea, remember what happened lst time I was there.  How long were you waiting for me while I was waiting for you at the wrong fork in the road.